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How do I delete the home address field (except the zipcode) from AD?

Posted on 2010-11-12

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I need to remove the home/work address field in AD but leave the zip code. We don't want anyone except HR knowing the home addresses of our employees. Is their a batch file or script that someone can help me with,

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by:Mike Kline

ID: 341215342010-11-12

If you look at this page http://www.selfadsi.org/user-attributes-w2k3.htm

Are you trying to delete streetaddresss or everything on that tab except for postal code?

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by:ITPULASKI

ID: 341215642010-11-12

I am trying to delete Street, P.O. Box, City, State/Province except zip which shows up on the 'Address' tab on a user profile in AD.

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by:ITPULASKI

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ID: 341242342010-11-12

I was able to find a way to delete a single user with this script:

Const ADS_PROPERTY_CLEAR = 1

Set objUser = GetObject _
("LDAP://cn=johns smith,ou=contractors,ou=stlouis,dc=axi,dc=aic,dc=com")

objUser.PutEx ADS_PROPERTY_CLEAR, "streetAddress", 0
objUser.PutEx ADS_PROPERTY_CLEAR, "postofficebox", 0
objUser.PutEx ADS_PROPERTY_CLEAR, "l", 0
objUser.PutEx ADS_PROPERTY_CLEAR, "st", 0
objUser.PutEx ADS_PROPERTY_CLEAR, "c", 0
objUser.SetInfo

However, I am need to be able to delete multiplle users address information within an OU and I do not know how to do that. Does anyone?

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by:Tasmant

ID: 349431822011-02-21

You can use this code.

On Error Resume Next
Const ADS_PROPERTY_CLEAR = 1

strOU = "LDAP://OU=MyOU,DC=domain,DC=com"
'Set rootDSE = GetObject("LDAP://RootDSE")
'strDomain = "LDAP://" & rootDSE.Get("defaultNamingContext")

strfilter = "(&(objectCategory=Person)(objectClass=User))"
strAttributes = "adspath"
strScope = "onelevel"

Set objConnection = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
Set objcommand = CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
objConnection.Provider = "ADsDSOObject"
objConnection.Open "Active Directory Provider"
objcommand.ActiveConnection = objConnection

objCommand.Properties("Page Size") = 1000
objCommand.Properties("Timeout") = 600
objCommand.Properties("Cache Results") = True

'Execute Query
objCommand.CommandText = "<" & strOU & ">;" & strFilter & ";" & strAttributes & ";" & strScope
Set objRecordSet = objCommand.Execute

Do Until objRecordSet.EOF
	Set objUser = GetObject(objRecordSet.Fields("adspath").Value)
		objUser.PutEx ADS_PROPERTY_CLEAR, "streetAddress", 0
		objUser.PutEx ADS_PROPERTY_CLEAR, "postofficebox", 0
		objUser.PutEx ADS_PROPERTY_CLEAR, "l", 0
		objUser.PutEx ADS_PROPERTY_CLEAR, "st", 0
		objUser.PutEx ADS_PROPERTY_CLEAR, "c", 0
		objUser.SetInfo
    objRecordSet.MoveNext
Loop

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by:Darius Ghassem

ID: 349592222011-02-23

This question has been classified as abandoned and is being closed as part of the Cleanup Program. See my comment at the end of the question for more details.

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